The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

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Iron67 said:
This is my workstation

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Does the power management "work" on your 5805?

I created a test four disk raid 5 array comprising four seagate 1TB 7200.12 drives.
Array was set to spin down after 5mins
It didn't

The 5805 was running the lastest firmware, latest ASM and latest driver
OS was win 7 pro

The power management feature of the 5805 made the card very attractive, as it would (could) power down the array when not is use (much of the time)

Comments????
 
Asposium said:
Does the power management "work" on your 5805?

I created a test four disk raid 5 array comprising four seagate 1TB 7200.12 drives.
Array was set to spin down after 5mins
It didn't

The 5805 was running the lastest firmware, latest ASM and latest driver
OS was win 7 pro

The power management feature of the 5805 made the card very attractive, as it would (could) power down the array when not is use (much of the time)

Comments????
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Yes, to me the power management works, but I have to put "Power Off drives after" = 30 mins.
 
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Only sporting 20tb of usable space on the rig in my sig. That's not counting the 4tb in my Thecus n4100pro that im trying to sell. Which I guess would put me up to 24tb since that's still on the network. Just not being used ATM.
 
Hallis said:
Only sporting 20tb of usable space on the rig in my sig. That's not counting the 4tb in my Thecus n4100pro that im trying to sell. Which I guess would put me up to 24tb since that's still on the network. Just not being used ATM.
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Hmm, but that's the "showoff" thread :) Take some photos and present!
 
In the club now. No RAID. Lian Li PC-7077B with an EX-34B hard drive rack.

From top to bottom - Four Hitachi 5K3000 2TBs, two WD Blue 500GBs, two Samsung F3 1TBs. And a Zalman 32GB JMicron SSD and a DVD-RW up top.

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Im in

Coolermaster 590
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO
Althon II X2 635
4gb ram
2x SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8
3x SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B
4x WD Green 1TB EARS
2x WD Green 1TB EADS
WD Green 1.5TB EADS
WD Green 2TB EADS
WD 160GB BLUE AAJS
Seagate 1.5TB
WINDOWS HOME SERVER PP3
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8.3mb bitmap? Even that took a little while to load on a 30mbit connection. Seriously, learn to use compression (see: jpg, aka what the rest of the world uses).
 
Blue Fox said:
8.3mb bitmap? Even that took a little while to load on a 30mbit connection. Seriously, learn to use compression (see: jpg, aka what the rest of the world uses).
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sorry its loading from my home webserver. running to much stuff at once:D
 
It's been a long time coming, but I am now finally able to join the club :p

Total unformated space: 16.5TB

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Case: Coolermaster RC590 (with modifications to fit the 5into3 modules) + Three Supermicro CSE-M35TQ
PSU: Corsair HX520
Motherboard: Supermicro X8SIL-F << LINK
CPU: Intel i3-530
RAM: ???
Controller Card: Adaptec 5805 << LINK
Hard Drives:
WHS
• Seagate Constellation 500GB (system)
• 2off Seagate 7200.12 1TB
• 2off Seagate LP 2TB
RAID 6 array
• 5off Seagate LP 2TB
Battery Backup Units: Adaptec 2248000-R
Operating System: WHS v1
 
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After years of non raid I decided it was time to move on and invest (first post for me btw after reading alot on these boards)

Case : Mountainmods Ascension Duality
PSU :Corsair AX1200
Motherboard : Supermicro CS2BX+
CPU : Intel QX9770
RAM : OCZ 2*2GB DDR3 PC3-14400
Controller : Areca ARC-1680ix-16

Harddrives
Raid 10 (onboard) 4*300GB Velociraptor WD3000HLFS
Raid 5 8*2TB Hitachi HDS722020ALA330
Raid 5 8*2TB Samsung HD204UI

NAS : DroboPro 8bay with Raid 5 8*2TB Samsung HD204UI


OS : Win7 ultimate X64


My budget is not unlimited so I decided to run my raids on desktop grade disks.
I read many positive things about the Hitachi 7K2000 and less positive things about the Samsung F4EG :)
There is room left in my case so if I ever run out of diskspace expansion is possible, I really like the mountainmods solution to attach 3 harddrives directly to a 1200mm fan. Ofcourse if I ever need to swap a disk its gonna be hell.

I included some screenshots with Crystaldiskmark, I'm pretty sure my 4k block performance is bad, does anyone know what could be the reason ?

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Benchmark on C drive Raid 10 (0+1) with onboard intel chip
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Benchmark on Raidset 1 Hitachi
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Benchmark on Raidset 2 Samsung
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My custommade Starcraft 2 fangrills in all their glory :) total of 16 silent 120mm blue led fans
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There are more disks and empty room on the left side of the case
Just a little bit of work needed to strap all the cables and I'm done
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My Computer
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Mistalakeboy said:
compare to his mines look like crap lol
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From the front they look the same. ;)
How bizarre that two people, a couple of posts apart would show the same "case"!! :)
As for the cables being tidy, the WHS is my pet project, I am forever tinkering with it.

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And photo is taken professionally (no shadows, no dark/bright spots) ;)
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Photography is a hobby.
The WHS was "out" for an upgrade, so it was no hassle to record its evolution with a quality photo.
Again my OCD. :p
 
Sir, I believe there are significant differences between our definitions of the word "mess."
 
tgrimley said:
Would be interesting to see the SATA/Power connections on those hotswaps. Curious how you got it so clean!
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here is a picture of the inside before from the "old" build, before the upper 5into3 was connected. is this picture okay?

the cable uses standard molex idc connectors

the cable wasn't built for the server, i built the cable years and years ago, it was a sheer fluke the cable was the correct spacing!

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Well here is my contribution:
total space: 16.75TB

Case: Norco RPC-450
PSU: XION 630
Motherboard: Biostar A760g M2+
CPU: amd x4 630
RAM: 2x2gb Adata ddr2
Raid controller: LSI 9260-8i (8x2tb in raid6)
Hard Drives: 8x2TB (hd204ui), 74gb raptor (os)
BBU: Cyberpower 1350
Operating System: Server 2008R2 Datacenter (thank you school)
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yaya i know, cable management. just haven't gotten around to it yet
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I use this to store all my movies/bdrips/series. I transfer everything by ftp as i do not care about streaming as of yet.
In the somewhat near future i plan on upgrading the mobo/cpu to a supermicro board and a xeon processor (models tbd)
 
Finally broke the 10TB barrier. 12030GB total pre-format

Case: Supermicro SC942i-600B + 3x Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B
PSU: Ablecom 600W Triple-redundant AC power supply with PFC
Motherboard: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
CPU: AMD Opteron 165
RAM: 4x OCZ 1GB DDR-400
Controller: 2x Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8
Hard Drives:
OS
&#8226; 1x Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 10000RPM/16MB/150GB
Primary storage pool
&#8226; 8x Western Digital Caviar RE WD3200SD 7200RPM/8MB/320GB
&#8226; 1x Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JD 7200RPM/8MB/320GB
&#8226; 3x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C HDS72101 7200RPM/32MB/1TB
Storage pool backup
&#8226; 2x Seagate Barracuda XT ST33000651AS 7200RPM/64MB/3TB
Operating System: Solaris 11 Express

Doing my initial rsync backup! Went from 3TB (raw) mirrored to 6TB (raw) mirrored.
Code: 
tim@banshee:~$ zpool list
NAME     SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
backup  5.44T  96.4G  5.34T     1%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
rpool   97.5G  3.83G  93.7G     3%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
tank    5.05T  2.14T  2.91T    42%  1.00x  ONLINE  -

 
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TeeJayHoward said:
Finally broke the 10TB barrier. 12030GB total pre-format

Case: Supermicro SC942i-600B + 3x Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B
PSU: Ablecom 600W Triple-redundant AC power supply with PFC
Motherboard: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
CPU: AMD Opteron 165
RAM: 4x OCZ 1GB DDR-400
Controller: 2x Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8
Hard Drives:
OS
• 1x Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 10000RPM/16MB/150GB
Primary storage pool
• 8x Western Digital Caviar RE WD3200SD 7200RPM/8MB/320GB
• 1x Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JD 7200RPM/8MB/320GB
• 3x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C HDS72101 7200RPM/32MB/1TB
Storage pool backup
• 2x Seagate Barracuda XT ST33000651AS 7200RPM/64MB/3TB
Operating System: Solaris 11 Express
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Thought that text style looked familiar
 
Does WHS count.. 16TB

Yeah.. not a the same level of some of you but.. it works..

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HP Mediasmart EX470
500 GB Seagate drive that came with MediaSmart
3 Western Digital 1 TB drives

Sans Digital TowerRaid TR4M
4 Seagate 1.5 TB drives

Sans Digital TowerRaid TR8U
4 Seagate 2TB drives

More Storage in each computer that is in the house, but I haven't got around to consolidating it in the TR8U yet.. I have 4 open slots to fill.
 
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Damm, talk about size envy in this thread. I showed my gorlfriend this thread and told her how much these setups cost and their use and she smiled and said "its a good thing you don;t need something like that". I told her I just need the money and this is right up my alley.
 
this blows i wake up this morning finding my file server off and when i turn it back on i seem smoke and a light coming from this:
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good thing is there were no hard drives in that slot. now i need to go find a replacement
 
shetu said:
Hi
What is model name of Rack mount server cabinet and price?
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It's a HP 10622 G2 rack. I think the MSRP on the 22U version is like $1400 or $1800 or something like that. I picked mine up in brand-new condition from Tech4Less for $400, if I recall correctly. Scraped up and dented up one of the panels when I got it home, ticked me off. One of these days I'll figure out how to install that stabilizer kit. Until then, it's "be extra careful" and "install everything on the bottom".
 
Mistalakeboy said:
this blows i wake up this morning finding my file server off and when i turn it back on i seem smoke and a light coming from this:
good thing is there were no hard drives in that slot. now i need to go find a replacement
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I have to say, that is the first time I've seen any computer flame like that.
 
Mistalakeboy said:
this is the first time i ever seem a computer flame up lol
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In my younger years I once booted my machine up with a hd on the carpet, i saw a flash of light and a small smoke cloud rise up from behind the box, needless to say that drive was done for.
 
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